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Now what affliction to a childless wife

Could hap, except as touching wedlock-right?

That mine affliction is: thou promptest well.

What leman in thy stead doth thy lord love?

The captive woman that was Hector's wife.

An ill tale, that a man should have two wives!

Even so it was, and I against it fought.

Didst thou for her devise a woman's vengeance?

Ay, death for her and for her base-born child.

And slewest them?—or some mischance hath foiled thee?

Old Peleus, championing the baser cause.